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Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English writer of romantic and devotional poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember".
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culture · English poet (1830–1894) · poet · writer · hymnwriter · librettist · also Christina Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Christina G. Rossetti, Christina G., Christina Georgina; Rosetti, Rossetti
Born 5 December 1830 · Died 29 December 1894 · Q236596
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2022· 2 entries
The Atlantic: Some Reminiscences of Christina Rossetti
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2011· 1 entry
Christina Rossetti was a subject of a Radio 4 programme, In Our Time
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2000· 1 entry
One of many Millennium projects across the country was a poetry stone placed in what had been the grounds of North Hill House in Frome
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1919· 1 entry
As were the ashes of four subsequent family members
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1918· 1 entry
John Ireland set eight poems from her Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book to music in his song cycle Mother and Child
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1894· 1 entry
Died 1894-12-29.
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1893· 1 entry
Oversaw an enlarged edition of Sing-Song, which had originally been published in 1872
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1883· 1 entry
Swinburne dedicated A Century of Roundels to Christina, and she adopted his roundel form in a number of poems, for instance in Wife to Husband
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1872· 1 entry
Suffering a near-fatal attack in the early 1870s
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1861· 1 entry
Gabriel sent a copy to the art critic John Ruskin
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1858· 1 entry
Brett abandoned a portrait he had been painting of her
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1854· 1 entry
Returned to London, where Gabriele Rossetti died
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1853· 1 entry
Helped her mother run a school in Fromefield, Frome, but the venture was not a success
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1848· 2 entries
Two poems, "Death's Chill Between" and "Heart's Chill Between," were published in the Athenaeum magazine
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Sat for the Virgin Mary in his first completed oil painting, The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, the first work he inscribed with the initials "PRB", for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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1847· 2 entries
Christina's grandfather Gaetano Polidori published a small volume of her poetry, which was given out to family and friends
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Began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads, while drawing on narratives from the Bible, folk tales and the lives of saints
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1843· 1 entry
Was diagnosed with persistent bronchitis, possibly tuberculosis, and faced losing his sight
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1830· 1 entry
Born 1830-12-05.
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